On Thu, Jan 31, 2008 at 02:47:17AM +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote:> > smbfs has the unfortunate quality of momentum. A lot of users aren't> > aware of CIFS at all since smbfs basically does what they need it to> > do. Some extra warning for those users would be nice.

> And many users will start whining loudly that the not deprecated driver > (in this case cifs) has this or that bug not before the patch to finally > remove the deprecated feature got applied or at least posted.

> And will demand that it therefore does not get removed.

We've had about 3 of these in Debian since deciding to cut it from theupcoming release. (The kicker for us was the samba security update thatwasn't tested with smbfs as a client.) The key regressions of interestrelative to smbfs seem to be: